Have you ever received a Google Webmaster email stating that your site was given a "manual spam penalty" for having "pure spam"? If you have received this warning, Google has labeled your site or parts of it straight out spam.
Google will now include example URLs in their emails warning webmasters about manual spam actions. There are many cases where webmasters know they have manual web spam action taken against their site, but they can't figure out what is triggering...
I think it's entirely possible that the Disavow Links tool is nothing more than a new feature added to the original Spam reporting tool. Just like the Spam tool, nothing happens after a single report.
Don’t spam the site owners with a crazy number of emails: Many people will advise you to send an email to site owners every few days until they either respond or remove your link. If you do this, not only are you going to annoy the webmaster, but...
Comment spam. Tired of Penguin 2.0 related posts yet? Every major Google algorithm update is followed by weeks and weeks of posts addressing the specifics of the particular change. Who got hit the worst?
For example, you might have a worksheet for directories, another for comment spam, another for article sites, etc. Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts announced that Penguin 2.0 went live on May 22 and webmasters braced for the worst.
Cutts also tackled the persistent rumor that the reason Google does updates like Panda and Penguin isn’t to reduce spam but is to actually increase revenue. Are algorithmic updates created solely to force webmasters to buy ads and increase Google's...
They are building spam fighting algos that improve the overall quality of search results. It will always possible for people to name reasonable exceptions, except, for one fact – Google is not building spam fighting algorithms to evaluate each...
Google spam detection is all about patterns in your link profile. When you've put a lot of effort in acquiring links to your website, you want to make sure these links aren't lost at any time. When multiple links are removed or changed within a...
Blekko, the "spam-free" search engine is on a mission to differentiate from the competition, and has been since launching in 2010. Today, Blekko unveiled a new layout for search results that aims to take the guesswork out of intent by offering...
Comment spam. Essentially, both sites scream "spam! Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts promised the new generation of Penguin would go deeper, and it seems to have lived up to that promise. Here are some early findings from sites hit by...
Google doesn't like spam, irrelevant content, spam, and dubious backlinks. The conversation should focus on spam and dodgy backlinks, irrelevant content marketing, and spam networks. The dark side of SEO began to cast a wider shadow over the...
There are also many reports that, despite Penguin, Google is still ranking spam sites. Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts tweeted about the new Penguin Spam Report today. When you go to the form, Google asks you for information about the...
You know, like spam comment in your forums or blogs? Why Content Marketing is the New SEO". Is Google's love affair with content marketing usurping SEO? Content Marketing is the New SEO " These are actual titles from article in the top search...
Last week Google announced the removal of thousands of link selling websites and we are hearing of a manual spam penalty against Sprint this week. Google has just rolled out Penguin 2.0, a large algorithmic update promising to go “deeper” than the...
He detailed that the new Penguin was specifically going to target blackhat spam, but would be a significantly larger impact on spam than the original Penguin and subsequent Penguin updates have had. Twitter is full of people commenting on the new...
Go overboard on "optimization" and your site may even get flagged as spam by Google and kicked out of the search results. You must now consider a number of new factors when designing your website. These factors include modern design and content...
We can't rely on spam and automation to boost traffic and search rankings anymore. Link farms and spam blogs aren't going to help you, regardless of their PageRank or domain authority. It doesn't help anyone, and it's really just a slightly more...
One of the common misconceptions of marketing automation is that it’s strictly for B2B, and is essentially an email system pre-loaded with time-released messages (or even spam). From search marketing to social media, these are business game...
The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts talking about what webmasters can expect to see in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google, particularly changes combating black hat web spam from many different...
